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is with me. the world's top. found a way to make his own address to the un general assembly shelter in the ecuadorian embassy in london and used a video link provided to speak to the world leaders gathered in new york. details of this unprecedented statement. it's a story that demanded to be heard incessantly r.t. have refused to ignore it having followed every detail of julian assange just case from the very beginning well last night the un listened as the wiki leaks founder

delivered his impassioned appeal to the c.e.o. and to the people who were gathered there calling on the u.s. to end its persecution of wiki leaks and of the man himself now he spoke via satellite link from the ecuadorian embassy in london where he's been for more than three months now as he fights his extradition he just the u.n. assembly in the great gathered there are t. were exclusively in the embassy behind the scenes and exclusively broadcasting as delia signs delivered his message to the world leaders who were gathered there he spoke for about fifteen minutes and the main point that he made was the criticism of the u.s. and of president obama criticizing them for defending freedom of speech of being very outspoken about defending freedom of speech but then converse lipase keating whistle blows and people he try and tell the keys and he spoke certainly of his vassal wiki leaks possibile so the wider implications of the route that the u.s.

is now taking. ration is in trying to root. a national regime of secrecy a national regime scotian regime way any government employee revealing sensitive information to a media organization can be sentenced to death life imprisonment. was now in recent u.s. the classified documents being found that julian the sons and wiki leaks are officially enemies of the state and that anyone he works with them could be potentially persecuted and now he spoke not only of his own ongoing battle but also the wider implications for whistle blows if the u.s. continues along this course. course one of the as i mentioned we were exclusively broadcasting a songes address live and you can watch the full version on our website.

i want to americans. julian assange breakthrough message exclusively on our t.v. dot com. well a video appearance put aside syria dominated the u.n. meeting after the country's capital was rocked by two rebel terror attacks in just two days but this was a largely ignored by international allies of the opposition who only stepped up their calls for regime change and russia says that kind of behavior only encourages rebel terrorism as odd his more important now reports. russia's foreign minister does speak to the fifteen members of the security council reiterating russia's position on the crisis in syria opposition that says the international community should be sticking to the six point peace plan that was laid out by former joint special envoy kofi annan as well as sticking to the communique that was signed in geneva and now russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov said that this crisis can

only be settled through negotiation and compromise. an argument was also made by china and brazil most recently with that military intervention could not serve to solve this problem only dialogue and diplomacy foreign minister lavrov said that russia's diplomatic principles are the following letting countries decide its destiny independently and not interfering in domestic affairs the foreign minister also said that it's quite concerning that western countries who are supporting the syrian opposition are increasingly turning the other way when violence and bloodshed is being perpetrated by rebels he said that this is a very dangerous pattern that is taking place and they could set a very bad precedent that would ultimately justify terrorism plus did you talk to the latest attacks in syria entre ceding any jew response from the un security council because some of the western nations prefer to step back saying that in this

case to be justified by people's desperation with the regime in such a position is horrifying and may venture mean leads to justifying terror attacks over the world with the u.s. president barack obama addressed the u.n. general assembly calling for an end to the government of bashar al assad syria's current president in addition to america's position the leaders of britain and france also took to the podium addressing the international body and echoing the sentiments made by their. american counterpart so there you have it it was just the most recent conversation taking place in the security council once again on syria a crisis that has been developing for more than eighteen months and still a huge division among the international community and there was autism or an important reporting while the iranian leader also warned against a foreign military involvement in syria after he addressed the world leaders at the

general assembly mahmoud ahmadinejad criticized western policies while calling for a new world order fresh thinking the u.s. and israel and boycotted his speech with the canadian delegations walking out of the chamber and protection. from the national iranian american council believes such reactions made in poor taste. good walkout that normally happens or in this case the fact that the u.s. and israeli missions did not even come to the speech i think is mostly political theater i don't think that this means anything this is about as sharp rebuke as can be delivered during these speeches but at the end of the day it's it's meaningless it's i think silliness that bears no mark on the reality of how these situations need to be resolved i think they do though speak to political . you know the political risk of appearing to be willing to listen engage to.

you know foreign countries that we disagree with. and just ahead in the program here on ars he will be looking at whether the relationship between the u.s. and israel could now be on a rocky ground the crux of been there for some time but they seem to be growing as of late washington appearing tired of israel's insistent calls for a strike on iran over its atomic plants. and the u.k. police deeply affected by austerity find ways to resist job and funding cuts so we'll tell you how they're letting the government know the dangers of having less bobbies on the beat. any judge has blocked the release of the country's most renowned activist job the announcement posted on the jobs twitter account said his next court hearing will be in october in august he was sentenced to three years for inciting a legal protests against the ruling family. leader from bahrain's biggest

opposition party things the ruling family has made the court its puppet i think you can go on a minute. on i really am trying to convince you should make it and create a situation for them to live in kind of you know job is one of them to sign their government and i really am want to come out of telling most of the rock i'm going to. speak up on to the russians and the mind of freedom we need is no. more right in the millions and just in to c.n.n. it's just it's not just a stick of judiciary it is just life when you're in. your own situation so i think government should rather think about what you're going to. write internationalism you want to buy and. our.

public services in the u.k. the country's law enforcement hundreds of police jobs are already slashed with thousands more. but officers are not taking to the proposed changes. faced with having to make deep budget cuts and to add insult to injury were reports of plans by a senior member of the government. in the west midlands have decided to fight back in a couple of weeks the conservative party conference comes to. federations for the three regions surrounding the city and preparing. ministers paying a visit. as many billboards as they can in the city center in order to put this government and. by the time the tories start their police. budget cuts. across the whole of england and wales the. six thousand eight

hundred frontline jobs have gone since the two thousand and ten general election in order to free up more money for the treasury which is in desperate need of cash the government to do. twenty percent of the budget. which ultimately the police federation's latest campaign here in birmingham is a warning that even if the deep cuts made by the british government save the money it could come at the cost of public safety. reporting. more news to come for you in just a moment. tucked

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and the. alleged nuclear threat. from the same hymn book well for quite some time but now it's becoming a bone of contention with washington appearing to be. calls for a preemptive strike on iran. the crack between the white house and the israeli leadership is starting to show benjamin netanyahu is pushing washington to draw a red line over iran a line beyond which lies war but president obama is not banding so let me be clear

america wants to resolve this issue through diplomacy and we believe that there is still time and space to do so even though the obama administration's stated policy is not to let iran have a nuclear weapon for benjamin netanyahu that's not enough if you're determined to prevent iran from getting nuclear weapons it means you'll act before they get nuclear weapons acting before could mean attacking tomorrow even though according to a u.s. intelligence assessment iranian leaders haven't even decided on whether to build the bomb or not america's top military officials made it clear at tacking iran would be a bad idea should israel decide to go it alone the head of the u.s. army said quote i don't want to be complicit and of quote they are saying they can set iran back a couple of years and then go back and do it again and again that's just idiotic because once you start using force everything changes colonel lawrence wilkerson has joined a host of other former and serving government officials who put forward an expert

analysis paper on what military action against iran would entail the paper states we believe that a u.s. attack on iran would increase aryans motivation to build a bomb. it would take iran a year or more to build a military grade weapon once the decision was made to do so at least two years or more would be required to create a nuclear warhead that is reliably deliverable by a missile as this room pushes ahead with war talk and red lines the obama administration is trying to relieve the pressure any pressure that i feel is simply to do what's right for the american people and i am going to block out any noise that's out there when the president referred to israeli war rhetoric as noise maybe ask whether the relations between the white house and television has hit a new low all you have to do in this town is say the word israel and everyone supposed to shrink away everyone supposed to leave the argument because if israel's

security is in peril then you are an anti-semite or worse if you say opposite opinion americans have made it clear they don't have the stomach for another war in the middle east especially a war based on some phony red blinds president obama knows that benjamin netanyahu probably knows that too hence the question is. really serious when pushing the us to the brink of what would be a devastating war or is it some kind of a good cop bad cop diplomatic game that the us and israel are playing whatever it is the escalating war talk is drowning out the hopes of diplomacy in washington i'm going to. and as barack obama prepares for the presidential election run in his republican rival reveals his postal financial history just a few minutes here on the surprising details of mitt romney's overseas investment. republican has been buying into his enemies.

way tanking economy rampant unemployment and a public mood may not actually be the worst of spain's troubles catalonia richest and most prosperous region it wants out its leader saying if he wins elections next month he will force through a referendum on independence. the regional elections being held in catalonia will be seen as a de facto referendum on independence from madrid and from essential lies government and that's largely down to who's running on the ballot paper we have present our soul mass regional heads and he's been calling for greater independence if he proves popular on the day of voting for them that could really reflect on how popular the issue of independence is has always been the simmering sentiment when it comes to this national debate between highlighted somewhat given the current economic conditions and economic plight in spain catalonians feel that they've been

hard done so that they give more to madrid in terms of the budget about twelve billion euros more on an annual basis when they ever receive back also catalonia as a regional sort of contributes about twenty percent of spain's annual g.d.p. now is still part with its own deficit struggling to reduce that deficit in catalonia about forty billion euros but here they say they've made deeper and tougher cuts than anywhere else in spain this issue actually earlier this month also about a million people onto the streets in barcelona as a call for independence away from madrid because of a very tough time for spain as a whole particularly for the government of prime minister rudd hoists as one m.p.'s dubbed it is a crisis on top of a crisis as they're facing their own problems of deficit reduction and people coming out to the streets in their tens of thousands to protest against how the government is handling austerity measures we've just seen this week protests turned

violent the occupy congress movement which started peacefully aim to get a message of and just stared through to a peace and ended in violence of police pushing back the protesters were being hit by battens having bullets fired in their direction and it's also about sixty people were injured in proceedings about thirty people be. detained that's a worrying sign as these demonstrations turn violent continue. so far the spanish government has reacted with distain parcel and its independence bit blaming it on populist politics that's not our speak with the other side here and speak to a doctor a. professor of economics at the university of barcelona thank you very much for coming on our to today the spanish government is unveiling a new budget with a massive new austerity drive how's that going to impact catalonia possible independence. i don't think it's going to change because because the certainty is

not do direct cause of these. independents it is a much more complex think. when you say it's more complex why is it so complex what are some of the other issues here. because the telephone is a people with a long history of language and identity and it has been struggling for the last thirty years through the recognized and to develop policies in many many different aspects with indian spanish system with this find used to marci our so called democracy and it hasn't been. crazy just the next century and the fiscal relationship with spain these net transfers that we deliver each year more than eight per cent of our g.d.p. net transfers are just the same thing that is more of what might be but as you say doctor as you say that catalonia has been struggling for the past thirty years

if it gets independence why would you think that catalonia can do so well on its own. ok because we have been struggling in part because of the economic relationship with in the spanish estate has been very very discriminatory towards catalonia with our tax. able to collect our own taxes would have. thirteen thousand million euros more per year that's what the recent study shows banking to icon that we manage to build old structures and to expand all the competence that now are in the hands of the spanish estate now we've been hearing some rather why reading things from the spanish military with possible threats to catalonia separatists saying they could face more short squeeze me a court martial if they continue on this course with the military interfere do you

think. well i think within the e.u. this is not anymore possible spain belongs to the european union the european union want. the spanish state to act violently against democratic movements such as the catalan movement anyway it would be nice to hear that our forces is the king kong the last to see something unknown and to declare that they are not going to use violence that would be nice but still like this threats are not credible we think that you know it is not possible that despite mission. uses force. lewsey a professor of economics at the university of barcelona thanks for coming on r.t. today. thanks thanks. by catching catching up with the clashes in madrid over the past two days or you can check out the full video archive at our

dot com certainly some pretty serious pictures to show you that we've called two days of the mass rallies made up of tens of thousands of video and opinion on the ensuing violence between demonstrators and police some clashes according to some of the people there were engineered and goaded by authorities themselves. are now u.s. presidential candidate mitt romney has raised eyebrows by releasing his two thousand and eleven tax returns after pressure from the voters turns out the republican who is very vocal in its animosity towards moscow as large investments in two of russia's biggest corporations as well as the story. republican presidential nominee mitt romney had finally released his much anticipated two thousand and eleven tax returns the three hundred seventy nine page return shows he paid a tax rate of over forty percent so there's debate over how that number was calculated

his tax return also reveals ties to his cayman island investments and the performance of his goldman sachs but perhaps the most important yet overlooked item on his two thousand and eleven tax return is romney's foreign investments and mitt romney family trust return shows romney purchased shares in two giant russian companies around the invested in russian energy firm gazprom and russian internet firm. the largest search engine in the country the records show romney invested over a thousand shares in both countries tax records also show romney sold both shares at a loss last september right before the presidential election season kicked off but what's puzzling is that the presidential hopeful took interest and invested in a country he recently bashed. just to russia this is without question our number one geopolitical foe they fight every cause for the world's worst actors that's right rummy invested in

a country he apparently views as america's number one enemy in fact romney's rhetoric on russia is consistently hawkish so if you want to run for the highest office in the united states and the verbal attack a foreign country you may want to keep your investments close to home in washington liz wall r.t. . or it's all over the. whole of the markets looking hello there we're going to get stuck into it right now a check out how wall street is trading right now they are indeed snapping a five day decline that submit speculation on china's economic stimulus coming into measures to really boost the economy as well as that we have american jobs this last week as well adding to the mess in the european stocks are gaining in the lots of parts of the session the spanish is actually dealing with the budget right now as we speak there presenting its two thousand and fourteen budget you've seen the protests on the euro as well as actually trading at the moment as investors just

wait on the fence in anticipation as to what's going on and you can see how the ruble finished up today in the trading session on the internet and against waskow currencies and if we look at the closing figures foremost you'll see that we've got an international momentum going on also oil prices were gaining on the markets this hour in about fifteen minutes of another update for you ok thanks very much indeed and we'll be back here at all today with the guys report. i hope you can stay with us for that. which brightened a few pounds from phones to christians. who screwed stunts on t.v. don't come. to moan come to the show

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